ICAN women's conference!

[lynnzop[$]]

I got to go to the ICAN women's conference today. We got to see the Green Babies lady, one of the co-founders of Pink magazine (check it out, not what I expected AT ALL!), great breakout sessions, and

Drum roll......


Suze Orman.

OMG, she is something else. Everyone who signed up for the conference and signed up for a TD Ameritrade account (really good deal - put aside minimum $50 /mo over the next year and get $100 FREE) got a copy of her book. She is VERY inspirational, smart and funny. If you ever get a chance to hear her speak, go for it.

Great day, and our group of gals from our company decided we need to take matters into our own hands and create an informal "women's network" at work, and maybe even do a book club thing - Suze's book will be the first one to be discussed.

[frazzledspice]

I heard Orman on TV while channel surfing...I think she appeared on CBN (Cable Business Network.)

She went through her entire life story--being a waitress 10 years, being loaned $50,000 from her customers to change her lot in life, investing the money with an unscrupulous broker who put her in an investment that was too risky for her profile without giving her all the details, losing the money, going back to the company that had employed the broker, getting her money back, getting a job with them, becoming their top seller, etc.

Wow...

I'm glad your company sent some women to the conference, and that you are bringing back the knowledge you gained and sharing it.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

I've never been a fan of hers. She's got a social work degree, like me, but as she puts it in her "life story" on her website, social work was the "easiest degree" so that's why she picked it. She would do me and the profession a big favor if she would just say she got a degree and leave out what it was (since she doesn't use it) and not disparage it.

[lynnzop[$]]

MJ, I can see why you'd feel that way. There is NOTHING easy about social work, and I totally respect you and your profession!

[Prepoia[$]]

She is good at what she does but then she turns around and bashes women in a profession. Credibility lessens. The same thing happens with teachers...those that can do, those that can't teach. Bah humbug.

I actually remember going to college with people that said that they were going into teaching because of the summers off (big surprise on how we actually end up working those hours after school year round) and those that "didn't know what else to do so went into teaching (like those teachers would be any good (not)!

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

lynnzop said

MJ, I can see why you'd feel that way. There is NOTHING easy about social work, and I totally respect you and your profession!

Thank you

I know a lot of people (even social workers!) like her and her approach and her techniques, but she just hasn't appealed to me, and her social work stuff cemented what was already pretty much a done deal in my opinion-forming process But many people have gotten good things from her and have been able to use it to affect a lot of postive change, so it's all good.